[Marxistindia] Suppressing Data: Modi Government's Deceit

[news from the cpi(m)]

January 31, 2019
 
Press Statement
 
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:
 
Suppressing Data: Modi Government's Deceit
 
The latest National Sample Survey Organisation's data that has been withheld
by the Modi government has shown that unemployment in India
post-demonetisation has reached a four-decade high. The rate of joblessness
among the rural males in the age group of 15-29 years jumped more than three
times to 17.4 per cent in 2017-18 compared to 5 per cent in 2011-12.
Unemployment rate of rural female youth stood at 13.6 per cent compared to
4.8 per cent in the same period. High levels of unemployment were registered
for the educated youth both rural and urban.
 
It is clear that the Modi government has been suppressing this information
from reaching the public domain. This has resulted in two members of the
National Statistical Commission, a statutory body which releases the NSSO
reports, resigning. This includes the acting Chairman. This leaves just two
members of the seven that the NSC is supposed to have. Earlier the Modi
government refused to release the Labour Bureau's annual survey of 2016-17. 
 
This suppression of data is a clear admission on the part of the Modi
government that its policies have resulted in greater misery for our people.
India's youth which is our asset is now being wasted. It also exposes the
utter failure of the BJP-led government to deliver on its promise of
providing two crore jobs every year i.e. ten crore new jobs during the last
five years.  
 
The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) demands that all data must be released
immediately. These must be placed and discussed in the parliament. The
people of the country have a right to know about the grim realities facing
them.
 
 
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